What's up with the botched prequel soundtracks?

Now, I'm not saying the prequels had bad music. Oh, not at all, it was fantastic. What I AM saying, though, is that the soundtracks they're releasing are very... Not what I'd like. When they released the IV, V, and VI soundtracks, they were FULL soundtracks. Two discs, about 11-13 tracks each, that added up to EVERY song that was in the movie, in the order they appeared, and they clocked out to be just about as long as the movie's screen time.

Yet, with the prequels, we get these crappy one disc releases of some of the movies "major" themes, and many of the songs are cut down and shoved together with multiple other songs in the same track. I think this was a very poor decision, and I'm wondering if there's any plan on releasing full Episodes I, II, and II soundtracks.

Thoughts?

(I know I made this topic on the I-II board, but that board obviously gets far less traffic, so I'm reposting here in the hopes of getting some replys)

Most likely Georgie will release a better version of them. Haven't you seen the Ultimate Star Wars: Episode I soundtrack? II and III will likely follow.

There might not be enough to fill up such large releases since they reused TPM music in AOTC and ROTS, but I would still like them to put out all the new music from 2 & 3. Especially 3.

Where have you been? the original releases of EP IV V and VI soundtracks were not complete they were the same as the PT. I had EP V on LP and the mynoc cave and boba following the falcon after the garbage is dumped is not on it. just as long as they do not release something like the ultimate edition of EPI that sucked.

I have a question about this... because i suppose the one who does the "copy and past" sh¡t with the music is Ben Burtt, not JW, doesnt it?

Because i read that John Williams records more than 2 hours of music (if we take the moments without music it should be the whole movie). So does Ben Burtt really think adding music from the other movies or repeating exactly the same music in one movie, looks good?

Im tired of hearing the music that sounds when R2 saves the nubian ship on EP1, it sounds again on EP1 during the podrace, on EP2 during the battle of geonosis. And i think it sounds again on EP3.
But it isnt the only one, sometimes you can hear perfectly how some music is cut and mounted, or cut and repeated from the begining because the scene was too long (example: the crash of the invisible hand, and the attack to the jedi temple, both musics from EP1 and EP2)

Yeah. John Williams did a lot of music for all three prequels, even if all of it wasn't used.

Also, the Episode IV, V, and VI soundtracks were, for the MOST part, complete. They may have been missing a track or two, but they were pretty full.

Originally posted by darthmaul1
just as long as they do not release something like the ultimate edition of EPI that sucked.

Err thats exactly what Im hoping for because the Ultimate Edition was excellent IMHO.

anther problem that i've mentioned before is that they are full digital digital digital transfers. if they were processed onto analog tape and made analog analog digital transfers onto dvd they would sound a lot warmer and generally more fluid.

Originally posted by Bespin Bart
Most likely Georgie will release a better version of them. Haven't you seen the Ultimate Star Wars: Episode I soundtrack? II and III will likely follow.

Originally posted by darthmaul1
Where have you been? the original releases of EP IV V and VI soundtracks were not complete they were the same as the PT. I had EP V on LP and the mynoc cave and boba following the falcon after the garbage is dumped is not on it. just as long as they do not release something like the ultimate edition of EPI that sucked.

And besides, the OT soundtracks were each 2 discs, about 15 or so tracks per disc.

The PT soundtracks were single discs, with maybe 12 tracks on the single disc.

easy solution - every track from every movie charting the begining to the end of the entire saga - in one neat package🙂

Ugh, I would hate to pay for that, and then try to load it all into my computer...

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Originally posted by JKozzy
Uh... that didn't suck. That's exactly how I want my Star Wars soundtrack.

Actually Kozz...the editing was pretty bad. There are a lot of fades through the whole thing. Whereas the SE discs had each cue isolated, so you had clean endings. That's the first thing that sucked about the UE.

Secondly, we didn't get to hear full takes. There were a lot of cues that were cut down or looped to sound just like the movie. JW fans want to hear the complete soundtrack without edits.

Third, there were no alternate takes. Instead we have the dialogue version of DOTF. Who needs that, really?

Last, there were no liner notes. Check out the booklets on the 1997 releases...that is awesome. UE just has stills from the movie. A waste in my opinion.

But it is an improvement over the other single disc releases. So it isn't terrible, its just not as good as it could have been, at least for audiophiles.

Actually, now that I think about it, I agree with tlbauerle. The UE is great, but it lacks the same feel (as well as the actual themes, its all just integrated!) as the OT '97 soundtracks. There are no themes, which greatly annoys me. I had to put both the Episode I soundtrack and the UE Episode I soundtrack on my computer to make it all complete!

You've got to do a lot more to make it even near complete. There has been a large effort to collect much of the unreleased music out there and edit a much more definitive version...but that only holds us over until a nice retail arrives.

Ganner... the two disc sets were only released with the special edition version of films IV-VI. The original soundtrack were single discs (or lp's at the time if you want to get technical). The Phantom menace was put out as a single disc until they decided to put out the double disc set. AOTC double disc is complete, but Lucas informed Williams not to put it out. There is no explanation for the delay.

The only reason the UE of TPM was put out was because there is so much unreleased music out there from video games that people were making their own bootleg expanded scores.

There wasn't much unreleased music from AOTC out there, so I wonder if that is why they delayed that release.